Family Office Partners, the multifamily office and independent advisory platform backed by Elevation Point, has added two experienced advisors in Houston to lead its expansion into the city.
On Monday, the Lafayette, Louisiana-based MFO announced the addition of brothers Patrick Keller and Andrew C. Keller to the firm.
The move extends a model built around coordinating investment management, tax strategy, family office administration, and planning under one roof, and adds another marker to Texas's rapid rise as a destination for advisors managing complex, multigenerational wealth.
Patrick and Andrew Keller join Family Office Partners from Inscription Capital, where the pair built a referral-driven practice serving family office and ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Family Office Partners founder and managing partner Benjamin T. Domingue said Houston has been central to the firm's client base for some time.
"Houston has long been an important market for our firm and is already home to many of our most sophisticated client relationships," Domingue said in a written statement on Monday. "The city has a significant concentration of successful entrepreneurs, business owners, and multigenerational families facing increasingly complex planning needs.
Elevation Point, the RIA growth accelerator led by chief executive Jim Dickson, backed the firm's formation in mid-2025 as the founding team of 12 breakaway advisors overseeing roughly $2.5 billion in client assets departed UBS.
That original group, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, was led by Domingue alongside Travis Frayard and Shawna Prejean, all of whom had spent more than a decade advising founders and closely held business owners before striking out on their own.
Domingue has consistently framed the firm's structure – rather than any single service line – as its differentiator. Family office work, he maintained, functions best when it isn't bolted onto a traditional advisory practice as an afterthought.
"Rather than coordinating specialists after the fact, we've built an integrated structure that allows every aspect of a client's financial life to operate as one cohesive strategy," Domingue said.
That pitch resonated with the Kellers, who described a shift in what sophisticated clients now expect from an advisory relationship.
"There is a level of wealth where clients don't need another opinion – they need a structure that brings everything together," Andrew Keller said. "When planning, tax strategy, investment management, and family office services are integrated from the start, families gain a team capable of executing across every aspect of their financial and business lives."
Patrick Keller added that the new affiliation gives the pair more capacity to perform the services they already offer clients.
"The difference now is having the platform, resources, and integrated team around us to deliver at a higher level and create even greater value for the families we serve," he said.
The Houston move lands as national firms increasingly flock toTexas as a wealth hot spot in its own right. Angeles Family Office, the family office affiliate of Angeles Wealth Management, named Kate Flume senior managing director in Dallas in March as part of an expansion that has pushed Angeles Investments' combined institutional and private wealth assets in the state to roughly $13 billion.
More recently this month, BMO hired three private-banking veterans – Megan Steinbach, Chris Gold and Daniel Patterson, all previously of Northern Trust and BNY Wealth – to build out a Dallas team focused on ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Henley & Partners has ranked Dallas among the fastest-growing wealth hubs in the country over the past decade, and the region's concentration of millionaires, centi-millionaires and billionaires has drawn a steady stream of financial-sector relocations and new hires.
Texas's lack of a state income tax has added to the pull, particularly amid a growing trend of state-level pressure to raise wealth taxes elsewhere.
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